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Matt Bernier

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I am a Product Manager who is passionate about finding solutions to really interesting problems. In the last 10 years of work, I have been responsible for the workflows of my teams and sometimes the companies I have worked for. I am passionate about developers, developer tools, open source, and APIs.

Project prioritization served with RICE

schedule 3 months ago

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60 Mins

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Intermediate

How do you prioritize complete randomness from every angle against the work that is mission critical? How do you keep your developers engaged while slogging through the worst maintenance project they have ever seen, while also helping them work on their passion projects? How do you get the fun stuff done while you work on the opposite, all while having the most impact for the team, the business, and your customers?

As a product manager, it is important to be able to find ways through the craziness, the passion, and the demands in order to make sure you are working on the right things at the right time. In my career, I have been asked to balance wild ideas, an open source community, required work, developer burnout, all while keeping a product backlog moving forward properly. I will talk about how I bring order to chaos using a framework called RICE and how you can apply this to the simplest or the most intense backlog using real world situations. I will also talk about how I have modified this framework to fit the real world, you know with deadlines and things.